<Case Report>Personal experience of a cholecystectomized surgeon : a case report

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On November 1,1984,I, a 43-year-old surgeon, received a simple cholecystectomy because of calculous cholecystitis, whose attack had troubled me 9 days before. In the operation, no extra-abdominal drainage from the gallbladder bed of the liver was made. Preoperatively, when a gallstone was visualized on ultrasonography of the abdomen, I could hardly accept the situation reversed from a surgeon to a patient owing mainly to the fear of receiving laparotomy. However, I was finally determined to challenge the perioperative problems for myself. My anxieties were weakened with my returning to routine work until the day before surgery. Postoperatively, the wound pain was tolerable to some degree with the use of epidural instillation of agents, but the agony of remaining nasogastric catheter (NGC) was far beyond imagination. Although my postoperative course was uneventful, by the application of the non-drained procedure to my case I worried for a few days for fear of its complication. As for the preoperative anxiety, postoperative wound pain and the non-drained procedure, a brief clinical survey of the gallstone patients who received simple cholecystectomy in our clinic was also made. Although simple cholecystectomy is common, I am trying to pay closest attention to patients who received the operation based on the survey and my experience.